Stupid is as ... #9
Fact: The South Florida news media devoted far more coverage to the Miami Dolphins football team’s miserable performance in 2010 and 2011 than it did to the horrific trends in health care.
Small wonder a Pew Research Center for People & the Press survey revealed 69% of Americans found details of the Obama administration’s Health Care Reform “hard to understand.”
For example:
Here’s some stunning data that went unreported in both the Miami Herald and the Sun-Sentinel....
Average Family Health Insurance Premium
2003 2010
Consumer Price Index 19%
Premium Cost:
United States $9,249 $13,871 50%
% median
family income 15.2% 20.6%
Florida $9,331 $15,032 61%
% median
family income 16.4% 24.4%
Source:
The Commonwealth Fund – November 2011
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